Vacuum stability and Q-ball formation in the Type II Seesaw model
Abstract
We investigate vacuum stability and Q-ball formation in the Type II seesaw model by considering the effective potential for scalar fields, taking into account renormalization effects. We find that the quartic coupling for the triplet Higgs can vanish at a high energy scale, creating a flat direction where Q-ball formation can occur. If Q-balls are produced, they eventually decay into leptons via neutrino Yukawa couplings with the triplet Higgs. If this decay occurs above the electroweak scale, the leptogenesis scenario can work, and the baryon number is produced via the sphaleron effect. We show that there are parameter regions where the above scenario occurs, taking into account phenomenological constraints.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.06592,
title = {Vacuum stability and Q-ball formation in the Type II Seesaw model},
author = {Naoyuki Haba and Yasuhiro Shimizu and Toshifumi Yamada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06592},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
12 pages, 2 figures, references, and discussions on experimental constraints added